But I mean aren’t our favorite games naturally the ones that have most influenced us and our views on gaming?

I miss it so much. Last time I tried to fire it up again, it just wouldn’t even run under Windows. And I just haven’t ever found something that hits the same.

Ha. Heard. I mostly don’t want to carry another device when I travel for work, so will use my phone to read.

My Younger days:

• Legend of the Red Dragon
• Police Quest 1
• Anarchy Online
• Bard’s Tale (OG)
• Shadowgate
• Metroid
• Forgotten Worlds
• Super Mario World
• Paper Mario TTYD
• Guitar Hero
• Tony Hawk’s Underground
• Star Wars: KOTOR

More recently:

• Cave Noire
• AC: Odyssey
• Fallout 4
• Cloverpit
• Offline Games (Android)

Mostly tried to stick to a single release per platform for the earlier games. I’m sure I’ve missed some.

Newer games…I know the AC and Fallout titles aren’t most people’s favorites, but I love those worlds. Games are all about comfort for me.

I moved all my books out of Amazon last year and host them for my family with Calibre Web. Jailbroke my Kindle and use KOreader exclusively, so I use Sync so that if I need to read while I’m out, I can just pick up on my phone.

What’s the flow there? Receive link, copy, open MeTube, paste, download watch?

Tiktok and Instagram links are so frustrating when friends send them.

KOreader Sync if you use KOreader. Easily pick up where you leave off on other devices!

I also run Wiki.js to (inconsistently) document what I’m doing with my apps and server.

Every Good Boy Deserves Meat Honey

From the 80s to now has been a wild ride for music fans. I never gave up my CD collection, but the last 15 years haven’t seen a lot of additions. Streaming just made it so easy. Then during COVID, I went hard on vinyl and did that for a few years. Then last year, I decided to start bringing my media back in-house. I spent weeks ripping CDs. I spun up a Navidrome server. I found Symfonium. I started buying CDs again.

Symfonium has a “Track Mix” feature, so I get in the car, hit that, and it just plays random shit. My collection is currently at about 25,000 songs and I have no idea what might come next. It’s great. There are some things I’ve probably only listened to once before, 20 years ago or something.

Then at home, I hit the Random Albums tab in Navidrome while I’m working and just choose something from there to listen to.

It has helped make my listening more meaningful again and brought me back to my love of physical media.

I still have YT Music and I use it to listen to new releases each week or for the odd song I think of that isn’t in my collection (yet).

“Critical consciousness.” Do not think! let us do it for you!